Sentencing hearing underway in SDNY court for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Here he is arriving at the courthouse with his sympathetic family. His attorney reportedly said Cohen decided to cooperate w/ FBI when he realized Trump was about to fire Mueller (via @ShimonPro@CNN)

#BREAKING Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. SDNY judge orders him to surrender in March.

Michael Cohen makes no comment after sentencing hearing. This is what you get for working wth Donald Trump, the mother of all fraudsters. Cohen will go to prison for, among other things, doing Trump’s dirty deeds, which are in fact criminal. Not civil, not private but criminal.

BOOM²: AMI (publisher of National Enquirer tabloid owned by Trump pal David Pecker) ADMITS to SDNY it made hush payment "in concert with [Trump's] presidential campaign" with the "principal purpose" being to influence the 2016 election. This corroborates Cohen. Trump is screwed.

It's remarkable that Cohen is going to jail for crimes directed by Trump. It's also remarkable that Trump isn't immediately indicted for crimes he ordered. Esp'ly when those crimes aimed to deceive the public to subvert our election. Justice demands Trump be accountable w/o delay

THREAD re key issue of indicting a sitting president for crimes that go to obtaining the Presidency. @neal_katyal argues inter alia following DOJ guidelines NOT to indict would perversely make the Presidency itself a get-out-of-jail-free card for crimes committed to get there. 👇

"if Trump is now in the room, as early as August of 2015 and in combination with the recording where Trump clearly knows what Cohen is talking about with regarding to David Pecker, you now squarely place Trump in the middle of a conspiracy to commit campaign finance fraud."

Key from Michael Cohen interview: "Nothing at the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run thru Mr Trump…He directed me…he was very concerned the election…I know the truth." Trump is lying about Russia. Still think Trump didn't know about the Trump Tower meeting??🤔

Here's the TRANSCRIPT: @GStephanopoulos talks to Michael Cohen, his first interview since being sentenced to 3 years in prison and implicating Trump in crimes related to the 2016 presidential election abcnews.go.com/Politics/micha…

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MAGA America: Trump’s about to speak in the Rose Garden. He reportedly just threatened to keep the govt shutdown for “months and years” over his campaign con wall. While a federal worker tells CNN she can’t pay her bill. #winning 🙃

Trump: “Tremendous things are happening. Wages are finally going up. It’s beautiful. That doesn’t happen from luck. I worked hard on that.” Now he’s just rambling about “open borders,” people getting shot, children…“Coyotes take a left, turn at the wall or powerful steel.” 🤦‍♀️😒

My wonderful Representative @RepBarbaraLee walks on the floor of the chamber as Nancy Pelosi is set to make history by being elected Democratic Speaker of the House—AGAIN. And third in line to the presidency. A good day.

JUST NOW: Democrat Nancy Pelosi is now the duly elected Speaker of the House of the #116Congress. First person in 6 decades to return to speakership. And the first, second and only woman to hold that powerful position. #winning

Trump’s rant at WH meeting today even made Bill Shine—disgraced FoxNews exec now head White House PR guy—squirm. He couldn’t sit still, as Trump rattled off his usual ignorant propaganda talking points and self-praise.

“What’s he done for me?”—Trump on Mattis, says he fired him because “I want results.” This rant at WH cabinet meeting is just incredible. It’s like he’s on speed. He just can’t shut up🤐. TV cameras should pan out—to capture the reaction of people in room. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

How dumb is Trump? Really really REALLY dumb: "The reason Russia went into Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. That's why there's no Soviet Union."

It's a miracle we've survived 2 years of this. Not sure about the next two.

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1*#Trump's Ex-Lawyer's cell phone signal supposedly turned on in #Prague Czech Republic in Aug.2016
Says McClatchy. Although all other #MSM#fakenews outlets like #CNNFakeNews
Have NOT been able to verify this crutial fact.
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Former #Trump lawyer M.Cohen has denied repeatitly ever being in prague. ~M.Cohen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail for lying. Common sense would suggest that #Cohen would likely be telling the truth.~
The unverified Prague meeting between #Cohen and #Russian officials
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3*
Was supposedly to discuss possible payments for hackers working against Trump's electoral rival @HillaryClinton

The president's former fixer Michael Cohen testified that he broke the law to conceal information from the public "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office" whom it would have hurt.

Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by ELLIOTT BROIDY, a top @GOP fundraiser close to Trump who is the former **Deputy Finance Chair of the #RNC‼️

🔥Broidy: “I had a consensual relationship w/a Playboy Playmate. At the end of our relationship, this woman shared w/me that she was PREGNANT. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy & I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”